Microwaving Cake In Plastic Easter Eggs!?

A friend told me last year that she had quickly read a magazine article about filling plastic easter eggs with cake batter and microwaving them. ultimately getting the cutest little egg cakes! Well last year I went through quite a few of those little eggs trying to perfect the method. The only 2 that I got to turn out were hard as a rock and smelled like aweful plastic. I just wondered if anyone has ever heard of doing this and hopefully perfected the method?! Thanks!

Wilton has a new aluminum egg pan that looks like a muffin pan. Each "cup" has a different design that bakes right onto your cake. Saw them at Wal-Mart last week. They also have a big Easter egg cake pan and several others with the "spring" feel. Flowers, etc.

I have a Wilton pan that bakes 8 or 10 halves of an egg that you put together to make the whole egg. I haven't used it for years, so I don't know for sure how many it makes. The finished egg shaped cake was about as much cake as a cupcake.